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Gerrard Wrote:

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> I left ED two years ago for the better value of

> Honor Oak Park. In its defence, HOP has some great

> restaurants for a relatively small area - Donde,

> Babur, Le Querce and Sodo Pizza are all in a

> different league. It is far from dull and I hardly

> ever feel the need to return to Lordship Lane.

> Transport links are much better than either WD or

> ED too.


I'm very keen on HOP. A walk over One Tree Hill to Sodo is becoming a family favourite.

West Dulwich somehow feels less grotty than here though. I know we have lots of temporarily vacant units here, but a new seems to be added to that list as each week passes. Just feels rundown, overpriced with crap transport links. As pointed out Brixton/Victoria line is walking distance from West Dulwich. We are walking distance to the Overground, woop woop.


Louisa.

Surely budget comes into this, you buy what you can afford, and if you need more space you usually have to switch areas.


?400k for a 2 bed flat sounds average now, or possibly on the lower priced side. Depends if it is a period conversion or in a block, also if it has a garden or not.

Is West Dulwich really closer to Brixton than East Dulwich? Maybe marginally, but it's still got to be a couple of miles at least.


I think it is by public transport, or at least more directly convenient - from WD station it's two stops, and the 3 goes from outside WD station to Brixton quite directly.

Gerrard Wrote:

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> I left ED two years ago for the better value of

> Honor Oak Park. In its defence, HOP has some great

> restaurants for a relatively small area - Donde,

> Babur, Le Querce and Sodo Pizza are all in a

> different league. It is far from dull and I hardly

> ever feel the need to return to Lordship Lane.

> Transport links are much better than either WD or

> ED too.


Moved to HOP five years ago after ten in East Dulwich, ED was cool, but I really love living in HOP.


Move to HOP was based on house prices and transport links. Great places to eat, relaxed vibe, close to ED, Forest Hill and many parks.


People sometimes sneer that we dont have a pub, however Forest Hill close as is ED. Not having a pub also means we dont have roaming packs of drunks on the streets at night or the associated crime. The bars are busy and have great food and drink.


great deli, overground, sainsburys, good chippy....oh and we will have access to thameslink when it opens.

West Dulwich is classy, home to Dulwich College, the Dulwich Picture Gallery and Dulwich Park. Dulwich Village is just that, a village with several specialist shops and a pub. It always looks well maintained and is what you'd term picturesque. It's posh! East Dulwich on the other hand is the new pretender. It's got many shops, pubs and restaurants and is very lively, lots going on in the area. In recent years it's become quite pricey to live in the area, some may term it trendy. To compare West Dulwich with ED is like comparing old money with new money. If you want good transport links to the City then ED would be best but even better is Forest Hill or Honor Oak which has the East London Line Overground train service. Personally I think Forest Hill is a much nicer place, that is the part of Forest Hill near to the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the right side of the railway track! All the buses from Forest Hill go down to Lordship Lane in ED, so best of both worlds. Lots of parks and green spaces all around. Suggest you pay a visit to both areas.

savvygirl Wrote:

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> West Dulwich is classy, home to Dulwich College,

> the Dulwich Picture Gallery and Dulwich Park.

> Dulwich Village is just that, a village with

> several specialist shops and a pub. It always

> looks well maintained and is what you'd term

> picturesque. It's posh! East Dulwich on the other

> hand is the new pretender. It's got many shops,

> pubs and restaurants and is very lively, lots

> going on in the area. In recent years it's become

> quite pricey to live in the area, some may term it

> trendy. To compare West Dulwich with ED is like

> comparing old money with new money. If you want

> good transport links to the City then ED would be

> best but even better is Forest Hill or Honor Oak

> which has the East London Line Overground train

> service. Personally I think Forest Hill is a much

> nicer place, that is the part of Forest Hill near

> to the Horniman Museum and Gardens and the right

> side of the railway track! All the buses from

> Forest Hill go down to Lordship Lane in ED, so

> best of both worlds. Lots of parks and green

> spaces all around. Suggest you pay a visit to

> both areas.


Aren't Dulwich park and Dulwich picture gallery are in Dulwich village not West dulwich? Dulwich park borders onto east dulwich too (I live within 5 minutes walk to Dulwich park and don't live in West dulwich.)


I personally prefer the SE24 part of Dulwich/bordering on Herne hill (big houses, brockwell park is very nice and herne hill station is one stop from Brixton). ED is probably more interesting place to live but they (ED/WD) are both so close together. We looked at houses in both ED and WD but went for ED as we have peckham rye park/common at the other end of the road, Dulwich park at one end and a dawsons hill (with great views of london) in the middle. Many of the houses in this part (underhill/upland/dunstans) have panoramic views of London as does the Mamora road area too. Some parts of forest hill also have these amazing views which are partly obstructed by Dawsons heights (some don't mind/some do).

fatcats Wrote:

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> Jeremy Wrote:

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> > Also London Overground is not really good for

> the

> > city.

>

>

> Really? Not even City Thameslink?


That's not the Overground - he means the line up to Canada Water and beyond. Which actually is quite handy for the top of the city (i.e. Bishopsgate) from Shoreditch station.

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